Hearse curtain-fixtures



A. TURNBULL. Hearse-Curtain Fixture.

No. 228,702. Patent-ed June. 8,1880.

lLPETEFS, PNOTO-UTNOGRIPMER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER TURNBULL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

HEARSE CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,702, dated June 8, 1880. Application filed February 21,1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER TURNBULL, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful lmproveineutin Hearse-Curtains, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to hearse curtains or drapery, and to rendering them adjustable according to the taste or circumstances of the weather; and it consists in making them detachable, to be used on the outside or inside of a plate-glass hearse at will.

Figure l is a side elevation, showing a curtain on the outside. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line of w of Fig. 1, showing a curtain on the outside and on the inside. Fig. 3 is a modification of the device.

The hearse-curtain A is madedetachable by being secured to a rod, B,on the top, and this rod has in the upper sides staples or loops 0, adapted to be pushed from below up into mortises a in the frame D of a hearse, and a screw or pin, E, is put through the frame and through the loop to hold the curtain in position. By removing the pins the curtains may be removed and be changed from outside to inside, or the reverse, both sidesbeing provided with similar devices.

In pleasant weather it may he often desirable to have the drapery on the outside of the glass; but when it would be soiled by rain, 850., it can be readily transferred to the inside. And it is desirable frequently to change the curtains, varying the style for persons of different age and circumstances, and this invention provides for such a change.

Many other means of attaching the curtains and of rendering them detachable may be readily suggested; but the invention is not in said means, but in the provision, substantially as herein set forth, for using them inter changeably on the outside or inside of the hearse.

What I claimas my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A hearse having two complete sets of fixtures, one inside and the other outside, for hanging the curtain interchangeably 011 either side of the glass, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. lhe curtain A, rod B, loop 0, and pin E, in combination with a hearse, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ALEXANDER TURNBULL.

Witnesses HORACE HARRIS, LEwrs M. STILLMAN. 

